Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'VBulletin'

Two Essential Plugins to prevent spam on your vBulletin Forum

February 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A few months ago I blogged about a few plugins to prevent spam on vBulletin. I have since updated that blogpost to include the two best plugins in their field.
The enhanced captcha plugin and the RBL Proxy plugin have reduced the spam on the blaa.ie forum to 0.
You can read the full post here.
If you’re [...]

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Tags: Spam · VBulletin

Banning email addresses within VBulletin

January 14th, 2007 · 7 Comments

A few days ago I posted about forum spam attributed to cashette.com. I have since then banned their email domain from signing up to my forum.
Total number of cashette signups this week = 0
A thread on Vbulletin-FAQ details a list and a half of recognised spamming email domains that you should ban immediaetly. Thank you [...]

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Tags: Spam · VBulletin

Cashette.com and forum spam

January 8th, 2007 · 16 Comments

About a month ago I received a bucket load of signups from Cashette email accounts on the blaa.ie forum. I was curious as to who or what cashette was so I looked up their website and I found this little blurb there:
“Cashette provides an innovative solution for the ever-growing spam problem. The Cashette service allows [...]

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Tags: Online Advertising & Marketing · Spam · VBulletin

Fighting Spam in Vbulletin

October 5th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Over the last few weeks I have seen an increase in spam users on the Blaa.ie Forum. To prevent these bastards from informing my users of herbal viagra and cell phones I decided to check out modifications are available on vbulletin.org.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Akismet is a well known comment spam detector made famous by wordpress. In [...]

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Tags: Blaa.ie · VBulletin · Web Development